Young New York stallion Mission Impazible could not have picked a better time to have one of his offspring give him the first graded stakes win of his career. His daughter Pure Silver remained unbeaten with a 9 1/2-length romp in the Grade 2 Adirondack Stakes on Saturday at Saratoga – just a few hours before the Fasig-Tipton New York-bred sale got under way nearby. Not only did the New York-bred filly’s success continue a big year for the New York-bred program, it boosted the stock of her sire’s offspring, helping him record one of the top auction prices of his nascent career. Mission Impazible, who stands at Sequel Stallions, was represented by a colt sold for $150,000 to McMahon & Hill, as agent for Bourbon Lane Stables. Consigned as agent by Sequel, the colt is the first foal out of the stakes-placed More Than Ready mare More Than Beauty. Mission Impazible finished with five of six yearlings sent through the ring sold for an average price of $80,800 – well over his career average entering the sale, $39,543. His most expensive offering was $155,000 Ethan Hunt, consigned by Sequel and purchased by Empire Racing at the 2015 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky summer yearling sale. Ethan Hunt was multiple stakes placed last year. Mission Impazible, a Grade 2-winning son of Unbridled’s Song, was New York’s leading freshman sire of 2016 and ranked third among all juvenile sires in the state. This year, he not only leads New York’s juvenile sires, he ranks in the top 10 nationally. Pure Silver, who is powering those statistics for her sire, became the 10th New York-bred to win a graded stakes in North America in 2017. She joins a group led by standout sprinter Mind Your Biscuits, Disco Partner, Fifty Five, Fourstar Crook, Highway Star, Inside Straight, Long Haul Bay, Send It In, and Summersault. Cairo Prince stays hot First-crop-yearling sire Cairo Prince continued his run as the breakout star of this summer’s sales, with a solid week in Saratoga led by a $500,000 colt who established a record price at Fasig-Tipton’s New York-bred yearling sale. “We had very high expectations for them coming in, and we’re very grateful that these horses have lived up to those expectations,” said Bret Jones of Airdrie Stud, which stands Cairo Prince in Kentucky. Cairo Prince, a multiple graded stakes winner by Pioneerof the Nile, finished with three yearlings in the top 10 prices at the statebred sale. He also was represented by a $230,000 colt sold to trainer Ken McPeek for Walking L Thoroughbreds and a $225,000 filly sold to agent J.J. Crupi. All eight of his offerings sent through the ring during the two nights of the sale sold, averaging $183,125. Cairo Prince tipped his hand at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky summer yearling sale, putting two yearlings in the top 10. His only yearling to sell at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale, several days prior to the New York-bred sale, fetched $420,000 from Cromwell Bloodstock. The highest price for a first-year sire at that elite sale belonged to Strong Mandate, who made a splash with a filly from his first crop purchased for $825,000 by Live Oak Plantation. The filly, who was consigned by Baccari Bloodstock, as agent, is out of the Grade 3-winning Graeme Hall mare Graeme Six and is a half-sister to graded stakes winners Cali Star and Delightful Joy and stakes winner Seymourdini. Strong Mandate, by Tiznow, posted his biggest win in the Grade 1 Hopeful Stakes at Saratoga. He stands at Three Chimneys Farm, which holds a strong hand with champion Will Take Charge also represented by his first yearlings this year. A son of Unbridled’s Song, Will Take Charge had the next-highest price for a first-year sire at the Saratoga sale, with a colt who sold for $475,000 to Kerri Radcliffe Bloodstock. The colt led a group of seven yearlings by his sire sold for an average price of $313,571. Mendelssohn gets first win Mendelssohn, who led the 2016 Keeneland September yearling sale at $3 million, won his maiden Sunday at The Curragh in Ireland for the Coolmore team and trainer Aidan O’Brien. It was the second outing for the son of the late Scat Daddy. Mendelssohn was eighth on debut going seven furlongs last month. He stretched out to a mile for his breakout performance. The colt is out of Broodmare of the Year Leslie’s Lady, making him a half-brother to four-time Eclipse Award champion Beholder and Grade 1 winner and prominent sire Into Mischief. Coolmore stood Scat Daddy from his retirement for the 2008 breeding season until his sudden death from a suspected cardiac event in December 2015 as his star was still on the rise. He is posthumously recording another stellar racing season, represented only this past weekend by Grade 1/Group 1 winners Dacita and Sioux Nation. Sioux Nation was among four winners for Scat Daddy at the renowned Royal Ascot meeting in June, along with European champion Lady Aurelia.